Every Year Thousands of Texans Are Killed by the
Negligence of Drunk Drivers: These People Leave Behind
Mothers, Fathers, Wives, Children, and other Family Members
that Have Potential Legal Claims Under Texas Law For Their
Loss

Every year thousands of
Texans are killed by the negligence of drunk drivers,
intoxicated drivers, and drivers under the influence of
drugs or alcohol. Many of the people that are killed by
drunk and intoxicated drivers, leave behind spouses,
parents, children, and other loved ones that are devastated
by their loss. These mothers, fathers, wives,
husbands, sons, and daughters have the ability under Texas
law to file wrongful death lawsuits against the intoxicated
and negligent driver, the people or businesses that
over served the drunk with alcohol, and the business or
people that gave the vehicle to the drunk driver to drive.

It is common that many
people who have lost a loved one to a drunk driver, do not
realize that they may have a viable wrongful death or
survival lawsuit against the person that negligently or
recklessly killed their loved one as well as other parties
that contributed to the drunk driver driving and causing the
collision. Under Texas law, Parents, Children, and
Spouses of persons killed by drunk drivers have potential
wrongful death claims against the drunk driver that killed
their mother, father, husband, wife, son, or daughter.
Through these wrongful death lawsuits and survival actions
the relatives of a person killed by a drunk driver can often
recover from the drunk driver's insurance company, the drunk
driver, parent that provided alcohol to minors that were
driving, or the bar where the drunk was drinking.

Texas Mothers Against Drunk Driver MADD and other
Support Groups Can help Parents, Children and others that
have Lost Loved Ones in a Drunk Driver Fatal Accident

Texas has many support
groups including Texas MADD
that can help Parents, Children, and others that have lost
loved ones in drunk driver accidents. These groups can
provide support to grieving fathers, mothers, wives,
husbands, sons, daughters, and other loved ones that have
lost important people in their lives.
Texas MADD has support
groups and affiliates all over Texas as well as offices in
Austin, Killeen, Tyler, Beaumont, Bryan, Dallas, Fort Worth,
Mckinney, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Edinburg,
Houston, El Paso, and Lubbock. For more information on
Texas MADD and an alphabetical listing of the counties with
affiliates, please go to the
Texas MADD Web Site.

Texas Fatal Drunk Driver
Collision Lawyer has represented parents that have lost a
child from the negligence of a drunk driver as well as
parents that have had their child suffer catastrophic
injuries from the negligence of an intoxicated driver.
He has also represented wives that have lost their husbands
because of the negligence of an intoxicated driver as well
as children that have lost their parents in a fatal
accident. In working on these cases, not only did his
law office investigate the cases, they worked with local law
enforcement in making sure that the drunk driver was
prosecuted under Texas criminal law.

Texas Wrongful Death and Accidental
Death Lawsuit Damages and Finding Insurance for a Drunk
Driver Death Lawsuit

After
losing a loved one in an accident, it can be difficult to
locate all potential insurance recoveries as well as to
prove to insurance companies and guilty defendants the full
extent of damages that your family has suffered. This is
true even if the damages suffered include the loss of a main
contributor of financial support to your family or if there
are large medical and funeral bills created by the death.
These damages can cause a ripple affect of other damages
that can result in the loss of a home, loss of vehicles,
loss of ability to go to college, and other serious
financial problems. This web page is designed to
assist Texas families that have had a loved one accidentally
killed investigate an accidental death claim and determine
if money compensation can be obtained to help offset the
damages that have been suffered.

In thoroughly investigating the death of
a loved one, it is important to understand the potential
different types of compensation that can be obtained through
the Texas legal system and insurance policies. Under
Texas law there are two main types of death actions, there
is the wrongful death claim that is available to the spouse,
parents, and children of a person that has been wrongfully
killed by the negligent actions of another. There is also a
survival action that passes through the decedent's
estate and allows the heirs or beneficiaries of a decedent
to seek compensation.

The Wrongful Death Claim seeks money
compensation for the parents, spouse and children of the
decedent based on a variety of factors including:

- Loss of love, companionship, comfort, assistance,
protection, affection or care
- Loss of financial support
- Lost benefits, such as insurance, from the death
- Loss of inheritance from an untimely death

The survival action are claims for what the decedent would
have recovered had the person survived the accident.
These claims travel through the decedent's estate and either
go to their heirs or beneficiaries depending if the person
had done any estate planning. These damages include:

- Expenses associated with the death
including funeral costs
- Medical expenses prior to the death
- Pain and suffering associated with the untimely death

In addition to seeking compensation from defendants
responsible for the accidental death of a loved one,
insurance can often provide compensation for the loss of a
loved one. Accidental Death Policies, Life Insurance
Policies, Homeowners Insurance, General Commercial Insurance
Policies, and Automobile Accident Policies are all types of
insurance that can compensate widows and Texas families for
the accidental death of a loved one. In many instances
if the party that killed your loved one is a business
corporation, the party will have a general commercial policy
of one million dollars to insure them from catastrophic
injuries and death. These policy can sometimes be
hidden until a formal demand is made to the company
responsible for the death. Additionally, if the party
that accidentally killed your loved one owns a home they
will probably have a homeowners insurance policy that may
compensate for an accidental death including deaths caused
by fire and smoke, an accidental shooting or stray bullet,
negligent children, attack dogs, dangerous condition on the
property, or other negligence committed by a homeowner.
Like other insurance policies, these policies must be
triggered within a certain time of the death and will not be
automatically triggered. A formal demand typically
must be made to trigger these insurance policies.